Chapter 22
When Katherine had arrived in the kitchen, Caroline was busy doing what she did best—cooking. The older woman could tell instantly that the conversation with Caleb had not gone well. She’d stopped her mincing and rushed over to embrace her, saying, “Now, there, there child. It will be all right. He’s a good man, you’ll see. He really is.”
Katherine had nodded. She thought he was, too. She had just met him in a period of his life when he felt out-of-control and overwhelmed by the responsibility of being in power. The princess could relate, and she was hopeful that, someday soon, Matthew would be back where he belonged, and she could reveal her true identity to Caleb and start over, if he would forgive her for being less than honest with him.
Once she was sure her new charge wa
